Popery, the Glossary
The words Popery (adjective Popish) and Papism (adjective Papist, also used to refer to an individual) are mainly historical pejorative words in the English language for Roman Catholicism, once frequently used by Protestants and Eastern Orthodox Christians to label their Roman Catholic opponents, who differed from them in accepting the authority of the Pope over the Christian Church.[1]
Table of Contents
64 relations: A Modest Proposal, Act of Settlement 1701, Al Smith, Aleksey Khomyakov, Anglo-Catholicism, Anti-Catholicism, Anti-Protestantism, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Bartholomew Remov, Bill of Rights 1689, Black legend, Catholic Church, Christian Church, Church of England, Claim of Right 1689, Commonwealth realm, Daniel Defoe, Democratic Party (United States), Dog whistle (politics), Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, Ecumenism, Elizabeth I, Ellen G. White, English language, English Reformation, Evangelical Catholic, George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, Great Apostasy, Gulliver's Travels, Henry VIII, Irish Catholics, James II of England, Joe Biden, John F. Kennedy, John III of Sweden, Jonathan Swift, Kingdom of England, Lay theologian, List of Anglican bishops who converted to Catholicism, List of ethnic slurs, Mackerel snapper, Oxford English Dictionary, Papal primacy, Papal supremacy, Papists Act 1740, Popery Act, Popery Act 1627, Popery Act 1698, Popish Plot, ... Expand index (14 more) »
- Anti-Catholic slurs
- History of Catholicism in the United Kingdom
A Modest Proposal
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift in 1729.
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Act of Settlement 1701
The Act of Settlement (12 & 13 Will. 3. c. 2) is an act of the Parliament of England that settled the succession to the English and Irish crowns to only Protestants, which passed in 1701.
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Al Smith
Alfred Emanuel Smith (December 30, 1873 – October 4, 1944) was an American politician who served four terms as the 42nd governor of New York and was the Democratic Party's presidential nominee in 1928.
Aleksey Khomyakov
Aleksey Stepanovich Khomyakov (Алексе́й Степа́нович Хомяко́в; –) was a Russian theologian, philosopher, poet and amateur artist.
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Anglo-Catholicism
Anglo-Catholicism comprises beliefs and practices that emphasize the Catholic heritage and identity of the Church of England and various churches within the Anglican Communion.
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Anti-Catholicism
Anti-Catholicism, also known as Catholophobia is hostility towards Catholics and opposition to the Catholic Church, its clergy, and its adherents.
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Anti-Protestantism
Anti-Protestantism is bias, hatred or distrust against some or all branches of Protestantism and/or its followers, especially when amplified in legal, political, ethic or military measures.
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Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th.; often called the Aristotelian University or University of Thessaloniki; Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης) is the second oldest tertiary education institution within Greece.
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Bartholomew Remov
Bartholomew Remov (Варфоломе́й Ре́мов; 3 October 1888 – 26 June 1935), born Nikolai Fyodorovich Remov (Никола́й Фёдорович Ре́мов), was a Russian Orthodox archbishop who secretly converted to the Russian Greek Catholic Church in 1932.
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Bill of Rights 1689
The Bill of Rights 1689 (sometimes known as the Bill of Rights 1688) is an Act of the Parliament of England that set out certain basic civil rights and clarified who would be next to inherit the Crown.
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Black legend
The Black Legend (Leyenda negra) or the Spanish Black Legend (Leyenda negra española) is a purported historiographical tendency which consists of anti-Spanish and anti-Catholic propaganda.
Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Christian Church
In ecclesiology, the Christian Church is what different Christian denominations conceive of as being the true body of Christians or the original institution established by Jesus Christ.
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Church of England
The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies.
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Claim of Right 1689
The Claim of Right (c. 28) is an Act passed by the Convention of the Estates, a sister body to the Parliament of Scotland (or Three Estates), in April 1689.
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Commonwealth realm
A Commonwealth realm is a sovereign state within the Commonwealth that has Charles III as its monarch and ceremonial head of state.
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Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe (born Daniel Foe; 1660 – 24 April 1731) was an English novelist, journalist, merchant, pamphleteer and spy.
Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.
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Dog whistle (politics)
In politics, a dog whistle is the use of coded or suggestive language in political messaging to garner support from a particular group without provoking opposition.
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Eastern Orthodox Church
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 230 million baptised members.
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Eastern Orthodoxy
Eastern Orthodoxy, otherwise known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity or Byzantine Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism.
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Ecumenism
Ecumenism (alternatively spelled oecumenism)also called interdenominationalism, or ecumenicalismis the concept and principle that Christians who belong to different Christian denominations should work together to develop closer relationships among their churches and promote Christian unity.
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603.
Ellen G. White
Ellen Gould White (née Harmon; November 26, 1827 – July 16, 1915) was an American author and co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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English Reformation
The English Reformation took place in 16th-century England when the Church of England was forced by its monarchs and elites to break away from the authority of the Pope and the Catholic Church.
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Evangelical Catholic
The term Evangelical Catholic (from catholic meaning universal and evangelical meaning Gospel-centered) is used in Lutheranism, alongside the terms Augsburg Catholic or Augustana Catholic, with those calling themselves Evangelical Catholic Lutherans or Lutherans of Evangelical Catholic churchmanship stressing the catholicity of historic Lutheranism in liturgy (such as the Mass), beliefs (such as the perpetual virginity of Mary), practices (such as genuflection), and doctrines (such as apostolic succession).
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George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore
George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore (1580 – 15 April 1632) was an English peer and politician.
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Great Apostasy
The Great Apostasy is a concept within Christianity to describe a perception that mainstream Christian Churches have fallen away from the original faith founded by Jesus and promulgated through his Twelve Apostles. Popery and Great Apostasy are anti-Catholic slurs.
Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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Henry VIII
Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547.
Irish Catholics
Irish Catholics (Caitlicigh na hÉireann) are an ethnoreligious group native to Ireland whose members are both Catholic and Irish.
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James II of England
James VII and II (14 October 1633 – 16 September 1701) was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII from the death of his elder brother, Charles II, on 6 February 1685. Popery and James II of England are history of Catholicism in the United Kingdom.
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Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States since 2021.
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
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John III of Sweden
John III (Johan III, Juhana III; 20 December 1537 – 17 November 1592) was King of Sweden from 1569 until his death.
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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift".
Kingdom of England
The Kingdom of England was a sovereign state on the island of Great Britain from 886, when it emerged from various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, until 1 May 1707, when it united with Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain, which would later become the United Kingdom.
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Lay theologian
A lay theologian is a theologian "who is not ordained, or a theologian who has not been trained as a theologian".
List of Anglican bishops who converted to Catholicism
This is a list of notable Anglican bishops who converted to the Catholic Church.
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List of ethnic slurs
The following is a list of ethnic slurs, ethnophaulisms, or ethnic epithets that are, or have been, used as insinuations or allegations about members of a given ethnic, national, or racial group or to refer to them in a derogatory, pejorative, or otherwise insulting manner.
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Mackerel snapper
Mackerel snapper was once a sectarian slur for Catholics, originating in the United States in the 1850s. Popery and Mackerel snapper are anti-Catholic slurs.
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Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house.
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Papal primacy
Papal primacy, also known as the primacy of the bishop of Rome, is an ecclesiological doctrine in the Catholic Church concerning the respect and authority that is due to the pope from other bishops and their episcopal sees.
Papal supremacy
Papal supremacy is the doctrine of the Catholic Church that the Pope, by reason of his office as Vicar of Christ, the visible source and foundation of the unity both of the bishops and of the whole company of the faithful, and as pastor of the entire Catholic Church, has full, supreme, and universal power over the whole church, a power which he can always exercise unhindered: that, in brief, "the Pope enjoys, by divine institution, supreme, full, immediate, and universal power in the care of souls." The doctrine had the most significance in the relationship between the church and the temporal state, in matters such as ecclesiastic privileges, the actions of monarchs and even successions.
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Papists Act 1740
The Papists Act 1740 (14 Geo. 2. c. 21) was an Act of Parliament passed by the Parliament of Great Britain during the reign of George II.
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Popery Act
An Act to prevent the further Growth of Popery (2 Anne c. 6 (I); commonly known as the Popery Act or the Gavelkind Act)Andrew Lyall; Land Law in Ireland; was an Act of the Parliament of Ireland that was passed in 1704 designed to suppress Roman Catholicism in Ireland ("Popery").
Popery Act 1627
The Popery Act 1627 (3 Cha. 1. c.) was an Act of Parliament passed by the Parliament of England.
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Popery Act 1698
The Popery Act 1698 (11 Will. 3. c. 4) was an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of England enacted in 1700.
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Popish Plot
The Popish Plot was a fictitious conspiracy invented by Titus Oates that between 1678 and 1681 gripped the kingdoms of England and Scotland in anti-Catholic hysteria.
Popish soap
Popish soap was a derisive name applied to soap manufactured under a patent granted by Charles I. Because the board of the manufacturing company included Catholics, the term Popish Soap (after The Pope) was applied to this monopoly commodity.
Prayer beads
Prayer beads are a form of beadwork used to count the repetitions of prayers, chants, or mantras by members of various religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Shinto, Umbanda, Islam, Sikhism, the Baháʼí Faith, and some Christian denominations, such as the Roman Catholic Church, the Lutheran Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, and the Eastern Orthodox Churches.
Protestant views on Mary
Protestant views on Mary include the theological positions of major Protestant representatives such as Martin Luther and John Calvin as well as some modern representatives.
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Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
Roman Catholic (term)
The term Roman Catholic is used to differentiate the Catholic Church and its members in full communion with the pope in Rome from other Christians who identify as "Catholic".
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Romanism
Romanism is a derogatory term for Roman Catholicism used when anti-Catholicism was more common in the United States. Popery and Romanism are anti-Catholic slurs, history of Catholicism in the United Kingdom and history of Catholicism in the United States.
Seventh-day Adventist Church
The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath, its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ, and its annihilationist soteriology.
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Succession to the Crown Act 2013
The Succession to the Crown Act 2013 (c. 20) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that altered the laws of succession to the British throne in accordance with the 2011 Perth Agreement.
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Taig
Taig, and (primarily formerly) also Teague, are anglicisations of the Irish-language male given name Tadhg, used as ethnic slurs for a stage Irishman. Popery and Taig are anti-Catholic slurs.
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The Great Controversy (book)
The Great Controversy is a book by Ellen G. White, one of the founders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and held in esteem as a prophetess or messenger of God among Seventh-day Adventist members.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, (25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a British historian, poet, and Whig politician, who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and 1841, and as the Paymaster General between 1846 and 1848.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
Yekaterina Petrovna Rostopchina
Countess Yekaterina Petrovna Rostopchina (Екатерина Петровна Ростопчина; 1776 – 14 September 1859) was a Russian aristocrat and writer.
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1928 United States presidential election
The 1928 United States presidential election was the 36th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1928.
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See also
Anti-Catholic slurs
- Creeping Jesus
- Fenian
- Great Apostasy
- Great and abominable church
- Liever Turks dan Paaps
- Mackerel snapper
- Nicodemite
- Popery
- Romanism
- Taig
- The Two Babylons
- Whore of Babylon
History of Catholicism in the United Kingdom
- Anti-Catholicism in the United Kingdom
- Apostolic Vicariate of the Lancashire District
- Apostolicae curae
- Catholic emancipation
- Cuthbert Haydock
- Edmund Bonner
- George Leo Haydock
- Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham
- Henry Edward Manning
- James Haydock
- James II of England
- John Graham (clergyman)
- Liberty of Religious Worship Act 1855
- Louis de Sabran
- Miles Prance
- Penal law (British)
- Popery
- Regnans in Excelsis
- Richard Challoner
- Richeldis de Faverches
- Robert Witham
- Roman Catholic Relief Act 1791
- Romanism
- Thomas Haydock
- Titus Oates
- William Bedloe
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popery
Also known as Anti-Papal, Anti-Papalism, Apist, Crypto-Papism, Crypto-Papist, Papalist, Papalistic, Papalists, Papish, Papism, Papisms, Papist, Papistry, Papists, Popery and Papism, Popish, Popish Church, Popishly, Popishness.
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